{"product_id":"captain-ahab-had-a-wife-new-england-women-and-the-whalefishery-1720-1870-paperback","title":"Captain Ahab Had a Wife: New England Women and the Whalefishery, 1720-1870 - Paperback","description":"\u003cp\u003eby \u003cb\u003eLisa Norling\u003c\/b\u003e (Author)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eDuring the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries, the whaling industry in New England sent hundreds of ships and thousands of men to distant seas on voyages lasting up to five years. In \u003ci\u003eCaptain Ahab Had a Wife\u003c\/i\u003e, Lisa Norling taps a rich vein of sources--including women's and men's letters and diaries, shipowners' records, Quaker meeting minutes and other church records, newspapers and magazines, censuses, and city directories--to reconstruct the lives of the \"Cape Horn widows\" left behind onshore.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eNorling begins with the emergence of colonial whalefishery on the island of Nantucket and then follows the industry to mainland New Bedford in the nineteenth century, tracking the parallel shift from a patriarchal world to a more ambiguous Victorian culture of domesticity. Through the sea-wives' compelling and often poignant stories, Norling exposes the painful discrepancies between gender ideals and the reality of maritime life and documents the power of gender to shape both economic development and individual experience. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ch3\u003eFront Jacket\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003eA social history that uncovers the lives of maritime women in New England villages whose men were whalers during the 18th and 19th centuries. Norling draws from a variety of sources--including women's and men's letters and diaries, shipowners' records, church records, newspapers and magazines, censuses, and city directories to uncover the women's often poignant and painful stories.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ch3\u003eAuthor Biography\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003eLisa Norling, associate professor of history at the University of Minnesota, is coeditor of \"Iron Men, Wooden Women: Gender and Seafaring in the Atlantic World, 1700-1920.\"\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eNumber of Pages:\u003c\/strong\u003e 392\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eDimensions:\u003c\/strong\u003e 0.92 x 9.26 x 6.22 IN\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePublication Date:\u003c\/strong\u003e October 16, 2000\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Books by splitShops","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":42130727469191,"sku":"9780807848708","price":64.73,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0601\/2623\/2711\/files\/ba81fc9b7ddc83cbd50c9234a3965595.webp?v=1732613264","url":"https:\/\/booksby.splitshops.com\/products\/captain-ahab-had-a-wife-new-england-women-and-the-whalefishery-1720-1870-paperback","provider":"Books by splitShops","version":"1.0","type":"link"}